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SUMMARY:Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biolo
 gical psychiatry\, 1960 to the present - Katherine Angel (University of Wa
 rwick)
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CONTACT:Alex Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:'Female Sexual Dysfunction' ('FSD') is an umbrella term for di
 agnoses relating to desire\, arousal\, orgasm and pain that entered the Am
 erican Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III in 
 1980. Using medical\, public\, and feminist discourse about FSD\, as well 
 as material from the APA archives\, my paper will address the view of DSM-
 III as having marked a categorical shift from a psychodynamic to a biologi
 cal psychiatry\, and of American psychiatry as a 'globalising virus'. It w
 ill also suggest that the existing critical work on FSD misconstrues the c
 ontemporary landscape through its narrow focus on medico-pharmaceutical di
 scourse\; examining a wider range of sources instead reveals a more comple
 x ontological register that problematises accounts of both a multifactoria
 l medicine and of the 'biological self'. It also urges one to think about 
 medicine and psychiatry as themselves post-feminist. My paper will emphasi
 se the importance of moving beyond analyses of FSD that take second-wave f
 eminism for granted (as well as those focusing on the rise of biological p
 sychiatry and Big Pharma)\, towards an analysis of the contemporary legacy
  of the embattled relationships between psychiatry\, psychoanalysis and fe
 minism in the post-war period.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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